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I have 179 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 505804 times and 283 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1791 of my 5,590 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1841 votes

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Another one of your wonderful

Posted on Fri, 17 May 2019

Another one of your wonderful walking ones :0)

love "woods of birdsong"

and :

notes of a cuckoo echoing
from time to time
from down below

you catch the space between so cleverly

and the feeling of...

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Posted in Up Carningli

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this would make a great film

Posted on Sun, 12 May 2019

this would make a great film :0) What does it say about Bill that he so wanted to be on the winnng side that he got someone who had earned their place to leave? I dread to think what Jennifer thought of him! It feels like a Machiavellian fable

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Posted in The Cinderella Team

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I hope this is not inspired

Posted on Sat, 11 May 2019

I hope this is not inspired by you working in a horrible new job?

"The world gave away free stuff and it was the best stuff anybody could ever get their hands on but it wasn’t enough. There was a bit more that we all needed and for some of...

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Posted in I Woke Up (in inverted commas)

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This one is gorgeous too! In

Posted on Tue, 07 May 2019

This one is gorgeous too! In so few words so much richness, I felt I had been there too. Thankyou so much for posting. I will want to read this over and over

Are you on holiday?

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Posted in Arrival – Evening Wander

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that's beautiful! I love

Posted on Thu, 09 May 2019

that's beautiful! I love these walking poems! I have never read anything like them, how you make a feeling of walking, place and moment come alive with rhythm and aliteration, more vivid even than your lovely photo

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Posted in Transfixed!

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 I enjoyed this very much!

Posted on Mon, 06 May 2019

 I enjoyed this very much!  All I know about Romans is vague memories of I Claudius on telly. You must have done lots of research to make everything seem so real!

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Posted in A Roman Triptych - 1) Calpurnia's Story

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you communicate the cold so

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019

you communicate the cold so well with this, I was reaching for my cardigan at the end! And the hopelessness of it, too. This terrible journey was only leading to the front line, yet they did not lie down and die there, but carried on, such...

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Posted in 1944 (12miles south of Spa Belgium)

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Nice to hear of your robin :0

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019

Nice to hear of your robin :0) I wonder how many partnerships of gardener and robin there have been through the centuries? If they know that we love their songs?

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Posted in I Talk To the Animals

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oh Jane, this poem resonates

Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019

oh Jane, this poem resonates so much with me!!! My garden was a drive when we moved in. I paid someone with a bulldozer to dig up the concrete and gravel but what was left under that was hard packed cinder I think, which I managed to break with a...

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Posted in I won't leave my Walled Garden

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Enjoyed this very much. Words

Posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2019

Enjoyed this very much. Words of a poem describing how words in a recipe are not enough, but the poem works brilliantly. It's beautiful and sad and true

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Posted in Toss in a pinch of love

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